Professor David Hulme, Executive director of the Global Development Institute A day is a long time in politics and the first full day of election campaigning was dominated by suggestions that the Conservatives would row back on the commitment to spend 0.7% of GNI on...

Pablo Yanguas continues our series looking at the big development trends to look out for in 2017 These are difficult times for the foreign aid system. While budgets may still be growing in countries like the UK, the reality of aid is one of dire challenges on two...

By Professor David Hulme, Executive Director of the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester and President of the Development Studies Association. Over the last few years, UK aid has acted as a lightning rod for criticism as it has risen to meet the...

A petition organised by the Daily Mail calling for an end to the 0.7% aid spending target will be debated in parliament today after gaining 230,000 signatures. In his new book, ‘Should Rich Nations Help the Poor’, Professor David Hulme examines the increasingly...

By Eyob Balcha Gebremariam // The May 24, 2015 Ethiopian election is an archetypical political process where authoritarian developmentalism went to the poll seeking procedural democratic legitimacy for its less inclusive economic growth and severely restricted civil...